The deepest you can go in the sea is 7 miles - I didn't know that.
Its called the Mariana Trench - I didn't know that either.
Only two people have ever been there and one of them is dead now - Nope, didn't know.
It was 54 years ago and they only stopped for 20 minutes - Had no idea.
Genuinely Fascinating, and perhaps you all knew already, I didn't. I'm just living with the fact that my 9 year old daughter just taught me all this.
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Three according to Wiki:
" United States Navy-owned bathyscaphe Trieste which reached the bottom at 1:06 pm on 23 January 1960, with U.S. Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard on board
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Canadian film director James Cameron in 2012. On 26 March, he reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the submersible vessel Deepsea Challenger."
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>> Three according to Wiki:
...or a more reliable source:
www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?t=9731&v=f
:)
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So not Jacques Cousteau nor even Hans and Lotti Hass.
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We recently picked up a DVD of Jacques Cousteau, having seen the programmes as kids and remembered them as being good entertainment.
The first one on the disc is of course his "The Silent World", the original film that shot him to fame.
Beautiful images, and all good fun, but we were genuinely taken aback in the scene where some sharks turned up around the boat. The crew - without so much as thinking about it - immediately got out their guns and just shot into the pack, over and over, killing as much as they could for no reason at all. It's pretty graphic, and they obviously thought it good fun and "sport" of some sort.
It made us think about how much attitudes to "the natural world" have changed in such a relatively short time. After all, he was a man who loved the sea and all to do with it, not some gung-ho idiot.
As to the deep sea trenches of the OP and so on, yes, obviously everyone has known all that since birth, come along. :)
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>> So not Jacques Cousteau nor even Hans and Lotti Hass.>>
Wasn't he some sort of a detective? :-)
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"The deepest you can go in the sea is ... called the Mariana Trench"
I didn't know that either until my 6-year old told me all about at lenght after watching an episode of Octonauts on Cbeebies.
The Octonauts are cartoon animal Cousteau-alikes (without the shark killing) and it turns out the natural history bits are quite well researched.
Curiosity picked me recently about what became of Cousteau's ship, the Calypso. I used to watch the National Geographic specials made by the Cousteaus avidly as a kid. It turns out she's rotting away (literally - she's a timber-built ex. minesweeper) in La Rochelle while an ugly family feud grinds on. Pity.
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Back in the 70s the company I was working for manufactured specialised cameras. The US military had some for use in submersibles that went about as deep as it was possible to go. Someone asked if we could have a photo of something on the bottom. They sent a picture of a starfish!
One of the craft sprung a leak and we had the camera back for repair. I forget the exact cost, but it was tens of thousands just for the camera repair.
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>> They sent a picture of a starfish!
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I don't think there was much chance of them releasing photos of what they were using submersibles for during the cold war.
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>> The deepest you can go in the sea is 7 miles - I didn't know
>> that.
Not impressed, its only 7 times longer than Southend Pier!
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Was on Eastbourne pier last weekend. Really interesting to see the repair work they are doing and the original Victorian steelwork, a lot of it buckled by the heat. Will be finished next year apparently
Not been to Southend for a while - does it still have the little railway on the pier?
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Last time I went on Southend Pier was in 1996 when I went to visit me ole Aunty in Chalkwell. I knew it'd be the last time I saw her as she was 93 with bowel cancer. I was right.
I went for a walk down to Southend and went on the pier for old times sake. The train was newer, red, I think. It was quiet, I think it was Winter and the man in charge took mreto see one of the old green and cream trains preserved there.
That was a blast from the past. We always spent our Summer hollybobs with Aunty May and often Christmas as well. Catching a train from Manchester Central to St. Pancras then tube to Fenchurch St. Exciting trip for a little boy in the 1950s ! I've not been back since '96 although I do have family in the area still.
Sand in the sandwiches,
wasps in the tea.
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Just so's you know.... - Cliff Pope
